Foreign bodies in the esophagus in children and adults - a five-year experience.

Incidents of foreign body ingestion and entrapment in the esophagus are a common pathology that brings patients to emergency departments. The main affected groups are children, adults over 80 years old and people with mental problems as well as patients with an anatomical predisposition to retain larger bites of food in the esophagus - conditions after surgical interventions on the esophagus, after either unintentional swallowing acids and bases or suicide attempt, growing mass causing narrowing of the esophagus in a sudden area and others.